If you round down the money Mitt Romney spent on this event to $1 million and round up the percent figure to thirty two, ol’ Mitt spent $31,250 for each percentage point. Dude got gypped in a big way, if you ask me, and would have got gypped even harder had McCain and America’s Mayor shown any interest whatsoever in this nonevent. Ah, well, live and learn.

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Sure, being able to say he won the straw poll gives him a little bit of credibility, but not being able to get more than 32% of the votes in a field full of also-rans seems to show how weak he really is as a candidate.

I think the real winner to come out of the straw poll is Mike Huckabee. He exceed the expectations of most of the pundits (myself excluded, of course) and I think his campaign’s going to start to pick up a little bit of momentum.

Tommy Thompson’s toast, and I expect we’ll see him drop out on Sunday. Duncan Hunter has already said he’s staying in the race, but I can’t help but wonder how much tread his campaign’s really got left on their tires.